Kimbo Slice vs. Roy Nelson Will Be Huge for 'The Ultimate Fighter'

You know it's going to be a huge when they make a point to pick next weeks fight at the end of this weeks show.
Can't wait for the fight next week. This was the fight I wanted to see the most Kimbo vs Big Country.
This match up is a pleasant surprise and takes some of the sting away from the money I wasted on UFC 103.

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yeah, going in you had to know ufc 103 was mediocre although aside from the main event it was decent, just not worth $45.

this episode will draw monster ratings...if kimbo can actually win here (which i highly doubt), i would stretch out his next fight to coincide with fedor/rogers. not that i would watch a tuf episode over that, but mainstream might.

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just for the record any one can tape them self bangging out guys that don't know the first thing about fighting .so in till mr slice fights a guy with
a name and wins lets not make him some icon

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ya i kind of expected that they were announcing kimbo to ssave themselves from losing viewers after that joke fight i hope kimbo kicks nelsons cocky ass, and for all the kimbo haters if you watch the show have you not relized hes a better person than every single one of the people on that show and he also admitted he is not a mixed martial artist just a fighter and he goes out to fight

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I have to agree, I'm impressed with Kimbo's humility and overall good personality. I thought he would be more like Brock Lesnar but I was pleasantly surprised.

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These are all good thoughts & comments about how cool kimbo is, but lets not forget what he was on youtube-a master blaster of medium skilled street fighters with very little respect/concern to other fighters that were less then him. I feel better towards kimbo now that i see a different side-but still wondering who we are going to get next week. win or lose- i credit him for doing this show. thanks

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No doubt Nelson has more experience. However, he looks so out of shape. If Kimbo can keep the fight standing, I say Nelson gasses out in the second round, and becomes a sitting duck for a Kimbo Slice knockout. Conversely, have you seen how in shape Kimbo looks compared to his older youtube videos? He looks shredded. I don't think he's going to have a problem gassing out. It looked like he was getting pretty good at getting people off of him too. If it stays standing, Kimbo wins.

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i think kimbo gets ko'd. To me his jaw is suspect, and he certainly doesnt have a ground game. this should be a relatively easy night for nelson.

Kimbo slice is an excellent marketer, and obviously has more brains than talent.

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Brian, a few things to point out Nelson looks out of shape but probably has one of the best cardio in the house all the fighters that have huge muscles like kimbo and wes Shivers which as you saw last episode gas pretty easily, and also yes he looks like he can geet out of bottom position easily in practice but yes its only practice, and Eric i do agree Kimbo wont make it very long but him winning against Nelson is just my hope

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It is a joke to say that Kimbo is " America's Famous MMA fighter" He has had only one real MMA fight in which he lost bad. He has great stand up but he is still nothing more than a backyard brawler. Gracie, Couture, Lidell, those are true names in the MMA worl. NOT Kimbo SLice

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I'm not a huge Kimbo fan but with the right trainers he could become a threat in the HWD. If he can develop sum ground skills he's definitly strong & looks to be agile & resonably quick. I would like to see him train w/ a good camp and see what he could become, if not in MMA, maybe boxing.

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Kimbo is going to tap. They announced the fight early so they can get the maximum ratings out of Kimbo before he loses.

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kimbo will stand until he can knock out and thet will be that - he has the grunt strength that matt hughes has. brock would be a good match for him.

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forget about how they match up. you know these shows are taped and very edited. the ufc knew how kimbo did before they decided to only show his face in 99% of all the promotions to this season. remember "edited" they added part of show 3 to the end of show 2 (like they allways do) but they never say who's fighting next week. know do ya think they did that so it would get more people talking cuz the rating's need a boost ? so the show's going great and its still kimbo getting most of the air time. kimbo is this season weather he wins or not. but know their telling us he fights next week so everyone knows to watch the last of the kimbo based episode's cuz the interest is going to shift to a terribly out of shape (downright flabby) ,un-coachable (they made sure we knew that this week)has-ben. well the ufc does strange things sometimes but i say no ff'in way......it might be a good fight, well see. but kimbo wins... if the ufc only wanted to milk out kimbo's popularity before he loses he wouldnt be fighting in week 3. vince mcmann wouldnt let it go down like that and neither will dana white. dont get me wrong i dont think there rigged but their gonna do a better job of putting the show together than that. ya see there's no rules, whatever's best for the company and mr.white has done, and will say anything to make sure of that, as we know...... now i dont think there enough clue's to figure out what going on in TUF but this seems like an easy one................ kimbo wins and sends a message, the next few weeks the show gets bigger and bigger waiting for kimbo to fight again. after that it wont matter and it will play out with a bigger fan base than ever.

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man all of you guys talking crap about kimbo.. he's going to knockout nelson in the first round nelson is fat look at his beer belly! just notice the way he was punching while sparing!
and i read someones comment about kimbo's jaw... well im guessing you havent seen his videos! in one of his first videos you can see how he let a guy punch him straight on the jaw with full force and kimbo barely felt it!

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mysace the guy punching him in the face was NOT trained and kimbo was that bum didnt have KO power how many times do i have to bring it up

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